The beach and the sea, sentence 1
At patrolled beaches in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland, lifeguards put up red and yellow flags; you swim between them, because that is the area they watch; in the USA you swim near a lifeguard tower that is open.
Who acts: lifeguards, you, that, lifeguard tower · What happens: patrol, put up, swim, be, watch · To what, where: red flags, patrolled beaches, area, USA
This is a sentence of the lesson «The beach and the sea» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lifeguards, you, that, lifeguard tower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 beaches | case |
| 2 | patrolled | patrol | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 beaches | amod |
| 3 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Australia | case |
| 5 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beaches | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Zealand | punct |
| 7 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Zealand | flat |
| 8 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Australia | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 UK | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 UK | det |
| 11 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Australia | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Ireland | cc |
| 13 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Australia | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lifeguards | punct |
| 15 | lifeguards | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 put | compound:prt |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flags | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 yellow | cc |
| 20 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 red | conj |
| 21 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 swim | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 swim | nsubj |
| 24 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | parataxis |
| 25 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 swim | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 area | punct |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 area | mark |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 area | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 area | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 area | det |
| 32 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 swim | advcl |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 watch | nsubj |
| 34 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 area | acl:relcl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 swim | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 USA | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 USA | det |
| 38 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 swim | obl |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 swim | nsubj |
| 40 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 swim | parataxis |
| 41 | near | near | ADP | _ | 44 tower | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 tower | det |
| 43 | lifeguard | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 tower | compound |
| 44 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 swim | obl |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 open | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 open | cop |
| 47 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 tower | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | patrol | participle | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | put up | past | lifeguards | red flags | patrolled beaches in Australia and New Zealand and the UK and Ireland | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flag=Theme at beach=Destination | |||
| 3 | swim | present | you | between lifeguards = lifeguard | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the area | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | watch | present | lifeguards = lifeguard | the area not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme | ||||
| 6 | swim | present | you | the USA | near a lifeguard tower | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in usa=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | is | present | a lifeguard tower | open property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:044-the-beach-and-the-sea.lesson:1.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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